Theodore considered that question. It wasn't an entirely easy one, since his experience with his mother being alive had only been until the time he was seven years old. But it was enough. "Yes," he said. "I know she loved him, she told me. I might have heard her say it to him, I don't remember. I never heard him say it at all, I don't think, but he wouldn't have grieved for her so much if he hadn't loved her."